On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Brendan Moran wrote:

> I was trying to say that if you want to generate a packet out of the blue
> and send it somewhere, a good way of having the info there ahead of time
> would be to run a config on the remote machine, which would send a ping to
> the Siteplayer server.  The server would examine the contents of the ping,
> and if it contained a command that the server recognized, it would cache
> that IP and MAC, then it would use them next time that it wanted to send a
> packet out of the blue.
>
> I agree that this is not the best way to handle it, but I think it would
> work.

Oh, you're comlpetely right, it would work fine.  I misunderstood what you
were saying.  If it were any other project I'd have gone with something
like that.  In this case, though, the target audience was corporate
customers with large networks.  I really needed more flexibility in the
network configuration, so decided to take a different approach.

Dale

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